Now that I have mostly recovered from traveling, I finally put up all the pictures from my trip to Italy last month. My boyfriend (now fiance) and a friend went to Italy for two weeks to ride and then go to a wedding. We were in the Abruzzo region and stayed in a small village outside of the city of Teramo. We went through these folks for our cycling tour, and it was very reasonably priced (four of us shared a house, and my and my partner's share was $1000 - this included bike rental; we got Surlys).
Weather was comparable to where we're from in Northern CA - it was actually hotter than we'd expected (in the mid 90's) and everyone in Italy said it was unseasonably hot, but it did cool down gradually over the time we were there (until we went to the wedding, where it was closer to 100 degrees, and really humid). The food was great, everything was reasonably priced and the scenery was amazing, as you can see from my pictures: Photoset
We did a LOT of climbing, every day - very very hilly terrain, and the village was up on a hill, so every time we came home we had to climb. Some very steep climbs and descents, and on the last day of riding we went up to Pietracamela, about 3000 feet.
A lot of fun and I highly recommend it!!
